Sunday, May 31, 2009

Fun Family Updates!

Wow ... there is so much going on in our family right now!  Here are a few updates of the Orear/Whipp/Maguire families!


Greg & Kim: #1 on the list of course is the birth of their first child, Jackson!  (How could you miss the post with all the colors, font sizes and bold fonts!)  Kim should be going home to La Plata today. Greg will be returning back to work on Tuesday.  My Mom and Dad will be there sometime today as well ... I'm assuming they will go to La Plata. :)  Here are some more pictures of Jackson and his parents.
Greg changing Jackson's first diaper
    In Greg's words, "Yep, he's an Orear!"
My brother trying to get some sleep
Mommy and baby day #2
Isn't that precious?
Sean & Tahli:  They have been in Australia for a week now, but no pictures yet. :(  Boo-hoo!  Guess they are busy catching up with friends and family and introducing Declan to a lot of Aussies!  Hope they are having a great time!  Sean will be going home in a week; Tahli and Declan will be coming home a week later, I think!  Declan's first birthday is later this month. They will definitely be home by then. :)

Tom & Heather:  They are also in Australia!  I hope they get to meet my nephew before he leaves!  They are busy fixing their catamaran so they can sell it before coming back to the States.  They are in the early stages of getting paperwork for moving here. :) 

Tom & Connie:  They are on their way to La Plata to meet their 2nd grandchild.  Hmmm ... maybe someday they will get to meet a grand daughter ... I guess it'll be my turn next! :)  They have found a home church and are enjoying the teachings and fellowship.  This church is a church where one of my neighbors and ushers from our wedding is a pastor at!  Small world!

Ross & Kerryn:  We are enjoying lovely chats late Saturday night with them!  We video conference on Skype to find out what is going on in Bundaberg, Australia and with their family.  Last night was extra special because we got to see Adam & Amber on video for 30 seconds before they rushed out to do an errand!  Now Adam & Amber are on Skype as well I'm sure we'll be catching up with them more often!  Ross & Kerryn are in the thinking stage of moving to the States as well!  It'll be great to have the entire family on one side of the hemisphere! :)

Fletch & Melissa:  We're not having a baby; we're not traveling to a foreign country this month; we're not traveling to meet new family members; we're not doing paperwork to move to a foreign country.  We're enjoying summer break and had a lovely couple over for dinner last night!  Bruce and Penny are new friends from Eileen Fisher Ministries that we are getting involved with on Tuesday nights.  We will have Fred & Eileen Fisher over later this week and are really looking forward to that as well.  We LOVE having guests over and now that the house is clean (and we have a nice lawn), we are looking forward to more dinner parties throughout the summer.  Melissa is planning her birthday gathering this Friday as well.  She's invited co-workers and friends from around the city to stop by for some snacks and wine. :)  We leave for northern California on Saturday and can't wait to get there!!! :)

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Introducing the newest member of the Orear family ...




Jackson Wayne Orear!!!  Jackson was born into the world, specifically Kirksville, MO at 12:26 p.m. on Friday May 29th.  God is soooo good!  Greg was already at his new job, 3 hours away, but was able to get to the hospital before his first child was born! :)  Big kiddos goes out to the Iowa State Patrol as well! :)

As you can tell, young Jackson is a lovely 10 pound baby boy.  Declan was over 9 pounds;  big baby boys must be a characteristic of Orear babies!  Welcome to the studly Orear women club, Kim!  You and Tahli are the studliest! :)  (Does it mean that because I changed my last name I will give birth to lighter boys??? Please???)

I am super duper excited to be an Aunt to 3 nephews now!  It's a tie ... 3 nieces (on Fletch's side) and now 3 nephews (one on Fletch's side).  Kim is doing well.  I wish I could see them, but am going to wait until Kim and Jackson get moved into their new home in Iowa.  The three of them will be closer to us, so there may be a long weekend sometime before Christmas to visit?  :)  More pictures will come soon ... cousin Declan is on his first baby tour in Australia at the moment but will be back later in June.  I can't wait to see cousin pictures!!! :)

Oh yeah ... did I menion I'm on holidays now until July 30th? :) :) :)  WHAT A WAY TO START MY SUMMER VACATION! :)

Sunday, May 24, 2009

New Lawn

Welcome to Colorado lawn care!  Fletch and I have learned that taking care of a lawn is a little harder to do here in the dry climate!  We both came from high humidity areas where you had to cut your grass sometimes twice a week!  When we moved into our home, the lawn was already starting to look bad.  This first picture is our lawn last week!!!  Really sickening!Here is a picture of the new lawn being rolled out ...... into our instant lawn!  The neighbors came home from visiting family in Illinois and were impressed with how quickly our lawn came to life. :)


We are all pleased with our new lawn.  Zack can't wait to go lay outside on it this summer with Melissa! :)